@ Audience


Southside Works, South Side. Thursday night.
Five teenagers in costumes stand together, following the sneak preview of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:

Boy in Cape: Dumbledore is so punk rock.
[Everyone nods in agreement.]

Benedum Theater. Late in the interminable second act of Light in the Piazza:

Woman in the Second Tier: JUST GET MARRIED ALREADY!
[The audience murmurs assent.]

— Overheard by zph

Cinema, AMC/Loews Waterfront.
The ads are running before a movie:

Nerdy Girl: I had a friend who mixed LSD and heroin. She lived, though.
Guy Friend: All I can say to her is, “Congratulations.”
Nerdy Girl: Yeah, she didn’t remember much of her freshman year of high school.

McConomy Auditorium, CMU.
Perplexed people leave a showing of The Illusionist:

Guy: You know, magician movies are just like ye olde heist movies.

— Overheard by M. Davies

Carmike Maxi-Saver, West Mifflin.
A Father and
Daughter exit the cinema. The Father holds the door open for his wife and younger son while the Daughter reacts to news of dinner:
Chubby, Red-Haired Young Daughter: Oh! Pizza! I love pizza! I go like this: [mimes reaching out and scooping big clumps of pizza into her maw] Mmm! Pizza pizza pizza! Mmm! Pizza pizza pizza!
Uncomfortable Father: [looking around] OK, stop that.